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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer | 03/04/2016

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6674 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer joins Kat to reflect on Pillars of Eternity a year later, explain his approach to RPG design, discuss the development of the expansions, and talk about what's next for Obsidan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The axe of the blood god.

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Wah.

0:33.3

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

0:50.2

Thank you. Welcome everyone to another episode of Axe of Blood God, US Gamer's official RPG podcast.

0:55.2

I'm your host, Kat Bailey, and with me today is absolutely no one, because I'm devoting the length of this episode to my interview with Obsidian's Josh Sawyer, who directed

1:00.9

Pillars of Eternity, and is on the show to talk about how the game has come out a year later,

1:07.8

thoughts on crowdfunding, thoughts on RPG design, and of course some thoughts on the

1:12.5

expansion, the White March, the second part of which came out a couple weeks ago. If you missed out

1:19.3

in Pillars of Eternity the first time, I thought it was one of my most underrated RPGs of 2015.

1:25.0

It's really quite sweet, even if you're not traditionally into a Western RPG kind of

1:29.9

style of game. So I highly recommend checking it out. In the meantime, if you go check out the site,

1:36.6

I have a review of Twilight Princess HD out. It came out today, today being Friday as I record this.

1:44.9

Yeah, it's pretty good. I like it, but obviously it has some flaws, which are unrelated to the fact that it's an HD, but it's kind of the definitive version of this game.

1:58.5

Strictly speaking, not an RPG, don't tell Jeremy, but I still think that

2:03.6

it kind of fits in that broad cross-section of RPG fan and general interest. So go look at that.

2:11.0

And of course, I'm doing a NusLock run over on Twitch. Go over to Twitch.tv slash USGamerNet

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